The data presented in this project was collected by the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) and concerns the collection of macroinvertebrate organisms within the Ashuelot River. This poster summarizes said findings, focusing specifically on the collection methods used by NHDES as well as seeing what methods or sampling times yield for taxonomic families of macroinvertebrates. The result of the analysis shows that while NHDES has used a variety of methods for sampling macroinvertebrates over the years, there is minimum variation in the results of those methods. Future considerations that may be undertaken would include more consistent sampling with kick nets and artificial substrate at the same locations several times within a year to get a better comparison of the two methods as well as an analysis into the specific taxonomic groups uniquely gathered by different sample methods.
